> Message: 4 > Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 13:53:54 -0400 > From: "Christopher Murtagh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [ydl-gen] X.org vs X.Free was Re: yellowdog-general > Digest, Vol 22, Issue 5 > To: "Discussion List for General Yellow Dog Linux User Topics" > <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > > On 6/27/06, Nicholas Sinnott-Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > OK, I did this and all the X stuff pointed to XFree86 4.x, not X.org. > > > > > The other option you have is to go to x.org itself and find what is > > > available there - download the source, compile it, build the > > > executables and install them. However getting what is current from > > > them may not help you if their package requires the more current > > > packages available in the Linux kernel or other dependencies which > > > replace those you may be familiar with. And as some dependencies are > > > shared across different applications this may become an unwieldy > > > problem pretty quickly. Depending on the computer you use for YDL you > > > have a variety of choices. > > > > > > > I guess this is my best bet. > > Re-compiling X.org might be a lot of work. YDL4.1 uses X.org, and I'm > pretty sure that YDL4.0 does too. I think the last YDL release to use > XFree was YDL3. Depending on how much you've customized your system, > maybe upgrading to 4.1 might help your situation a bit? > > Cheers, > > Chris
Yes, I tried to recompile X.org, but it gave nasty errors (IIRC, some sort of dependency thing), and took up about 1GB of my 5, so I removed it. I currently do not have a working CD drive for that computer, so I guess I cannot do anything for now. Once I can, either 4.1 or Ubuntu (I have it on my desktop and grew fond of apt, which is the same as fink for OSX) will go onto it. nick _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
